Hey I'll be the first thing to admit that the very thing that makes me the best cheerleader for TAG is also my biggest downfall.

My excitement for this game and bands I love. It's the excitement that keeps me going after bands after our tenth not interested, it's that excitement that lets me put in 36 hours straight of compiling, building videos, and keeping things running at TAG when I should just lay down and die for a week.

However that excitement also gets the better of me when I finally hear a yeah lets do this from a band or label, or come up with a great idea to help Rock Band get even more great music.

Nine times out of ten everything we've announced or got hyped about has come to pass. And yeah things have bit us in the ass from announcing stuff or plans too soon.

I fully admit that I need to get my excited caffeine fueled wagging tongue under control, but I think our track record speaks for itself when it comes to content delivered against things that have fallen through in the past.

And just so we're clear...this isn't **** we're dead see you later suckers.

This is just me saying that almost overnight our work force got clocked with real life issues, and we're going to do everything in our power to hang in there until we can hopefully right it.

So don't think this is us giving up, or anything like that. I just wanted everyone here to know what was going on if they noticed a decreased presence from us lately.

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Originally Posted by DragoonXD

It's funny because DLCQP let songs fall through too (some that had preview videos). I was actually really excited for this song.

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Like I said, no one's perfect. You should follow me on Twitter, though. I've spoken about songs we couldn't do/fell through for whatever reasons.

Well TAG I love you guys. *Hugs*
And i know you'll come out of this strong.. i have faith.

PS. And they wonder why the majority of people have left DLCQP.. look at the immaturity.

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Originally Posted by hmxhenry

As for the posters that feel the need to take pot shots at someone posting their bad news: grow up, or go post somewhere else. I'm not knocking reasonable and constructive criticism, but your "lols" and your "jokes" are worthless.

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Bad news: he already did the former while posting, and considering his presence anywhere, it's impossible to do the latter.

no one is safe from DLCQP's criticism

I am an older dude, which means I don't have to deal with any pressures of college (yay!), but also means I have adult responsibilities (wife and kids, yay!) instead. At this stage in my life, time is more important to me than money, however.

That said, while I know nothing specifically about authoring, I am a QA professional for a multi-billion dollar financial software company, and could probably help with the "playtest" aspect (even though I'm a "hard difficulty" player at best in core RB). I also have decent organization and administrative skills, and am pretty detail oriented and observant. I'm fairly certain I could learn the mechanics if properly directed.

Let me know what I can do to help. I don't want to see any authoring group fail, especially one that has shown a lot of enthusiasm and crazy-ass vision for expanding the scope of RBN.

I'm currently unemployed and bored about 85% of the day so just let me know if I can be of any help.

Wow, this is pretty heavy... I wish you all the best of wishes with college and I will pray to the rock gods that you guys will manage to rise from the ashes some day.

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Originally Posted by ThatAuthoringGroup

And yes it's people like all the wonderfull *******s at the DLCquickplay forums that make it hard to try and bother most days.

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1) Noble, it's criticism, but I don't think it's a personal attack (though it's obviously not being said in a particularly nice tone). You wear your heart on your sleeve as you cheer for RBN, but sometimes that means you take things personally when they are simply point out facts.

2) I don't see TAG going anywhere. Too much content and too many followers for it to. I'm sure you can get folks to step up, and I'm sure you're not the only RBN house to take this hit.

3) Don't go anywhere Noble. Shake it off, take what you can from your critics, make yourself better, and move on. I look forward to seeing more content from TAG, even if it takes a while to get here.